Definition of "misstroke"
misstroke
verb
third-person singular simple present misstrokes, present participle misstroking, simple past and past participle misstroked
noun
plural misstrokes
An instance of misstroking; a misstrike.
Quotations
To sit in your light shell of a boat, in mid-current, with rocks on either side, where the bed of the river declines at an angle of thirty degrees, knowing that a miscalculation of the eye, a misstroke of the oar or the least shaking of the muscles will send your boat rolling over and over, and you under it, has a very strong tendency to make a man look sharp and keep his wits about him.
1869, William Henry Harrison Murray, Adventures in the Wilderness: Or, Camp-life in the Adirondacks, page 79
To prevent the spears descending too far in case of a misstroke of the engine, and also to prevent them falling down the shaft in case of breakage, side or "banging" pieces of timber are bolted or strapped on to the spears at intervals down the shaft.
1908, Robert Peele, An Elementary Text-book of Coal Mining, page 287